forest – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of forest

Noun: forest
Sg.forest
Pl.forestes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Hit bi fel in þat foreſt · þere faſt by ſide / þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherde (It so happened that right there in that forest / there was a very old peasant; a cowherd.) [c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 4, recto, lines 3-4; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 6:]

Nouns inflected like forest

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis.

Verbs referencing "forest"

English Nouns forest.

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